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Latest — 31 Jan 2026

Nigeria: Population Without Prosperity, and the Cost of a Broken Economy

Nigeria is Africa’s most populous country, now exceeding 230 million people and growing at roughly 2 percent every year. In theory, this scale should be its greatest economic strength. Large populations, when matched with productivity and functioning institutions, fuel industry, innovation, and exports. In reality, Nigeria has become a

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The Income and Ownership Mirror: Where You Stand by Age, Income, and Generation in America

Most people carry a vague sense of how they are doing financially, built from comparison, intuition, and occasional anxiety, but very few ever sit down with real numbers and ask a quieter and more useful question, which is whether their income, their progress, and their financial position are broadly aligned

The Almond Mirage: How We Confused Industrial Plants for Sustainability

I was standing in line at a café the other morning, coffee in hand, staring at the now-ritual question: almond milk or dairy. It felt like a moral prompt disguised as a menu choice. One option carried the quiet approval of modern sustainability. The other felt almost apologetic, like admitting

The Long-Form Turn on X Is Not a Gimmick, and the Way People Read Online Is Quietly Changing

For a long time, the dominant narrative around X was that it functioned almost exclusively as a high-velocity surface, a place designed for fast reactions, compressed opinions, and constant refresh rather than sustained attention or genuine reading, and that any attempt to introduce long-form writing into such an environment was

When Founders Do Customer Support

Postly Founder stories, support, and the 2:17 AM inbox ✨ Visit Postly 🚀 Try Postly Free Founder life • customer support • building in public When Founders Do Customer Support Pain, growth, and the moment you realize emotional distance is not cold, it is survival, especially when your cat is judging you like

New York at a Crossroads: Berlin, Collectivism, and the Risk of Exit

New York at a Crossroads Berlin, Collectivism, and the Risk of Exit January 1, 2026 “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the wamth of collectivism.” Those words were delivered plainly, without hesitation, at the inauguration of New York City’s new mayor Zohran Mamdani, on January 1,

SEO isn’t dead - it’s just harder (and ads are getting too expensive).

For a long time, we poured money into ads - Facebook, Google, even Reddit. The results? Scanty. We never had the kind of deep pocket needed to make a deep impact. So in late August 2025, we decided to try something different. We started building our own growth engine -

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